Wow

A friend of mine had a girls' night out earlier this week to show us how she has started saving money by couponing and doing the Buy One Get One Free sales. It was a fun night, spent with much chatting about various things and lots of laughs! We did hear the strategy that she uses though before our evening ended. My friend Renie regularly saves 30% or more on her groceries by using coupons and she doesn't have to shop for off-brands or go to wal-mart to be able to do this.

I haven't gotten into the full routine yet. However, today I went to Publix and mainly using their Buy One Get One Free sales, plus a few coupons I had, I spent $80 and I saved $44.75! I was very pleased with my first attempt at this. Hopefully it will get even better as time progresses.

It would be so great if we could do all our grocery shopping at Publix and never go back to wal-mart again : ).

Thanks Renie!

The Middle of June Already

For some reason I always think summer will be more relaxed than the regular school year, but it never turns out that way. May and June have been especially busy for me. I was traveling some in early May, then some big life decisions had to be made which took a lot of time and were very stressful, and lots of planning going on for a series of XO workshops that start TOMORROW for teachers and in July for students.

I still have a few hundred pix on my camera dating back to Feb. that need to be uploaded and posted here and on Facebook. I keep thinking every weekend I'll have a chance to do it but I never do. I think I need a personal assistant just to handle some of the tasks like this one and keeping my life in order.

So, I keep promising that I'll post pix on here but who knows in reality when that will actually occur. Maybe before summer's end...